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Originally posted by J0n
Can't you just let p1 = 2 and say that p2*p3 can be represented by the product of two primes by the fundamental theorem of arithmetic? or am i horribly wrong, cause it seems too easy :(
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letting p1=2 is a bit...inconvincing...
i am not sure yet
 

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uh, is that a year 12 standard, 4 unit maths question?

btw, we should have three different threads:
Ask Victorling if you have problems
Ask Keypad if you have problems
Ask turtle if you have problems

lol, how mad would that be? ;)
 

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Originally posted by KeypadSDM
Dude, not a single even number is the product of 2 primes (if 2 isn't one of them).

You are waaaaaay off the mark.
Yeah, i though about it this morning and figured out how wrong i was :(. That's Chen's theorem, right?
 

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